Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (15 July 1952-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-FL 27) from 29 August 1989, succeeding Claude Pepper. The was the first Cuban-American elected to the US Congress.

Biography
Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato was born in Havana, Cuba on 15 July 1952, the daughter of anti-communist businessman Enrique Ros and a mother of Sephardic-Jewish descent. Her family came to the United States in 1959 in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution, and she became a private school owner and operator in Miami-Dade County, as well as the wife of District Attorney Dexter Lehtinen S. Ros-Lehtinen was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1982 and to the US House of Representatives in 1989 as a Republican Party politician, becoming the first Cuban-American and first Latina congresswoman. She opposed military intervention in Libya, supported the US-Israeli alliance, opposed funding the Peace Corps, supported sanctions against Venezuela, supported tax cuts, supported oil drilling, and supported continued sanctions against Cuba.